Kazakhstan is planning to launch 12 broiler plants, says Agriculture Minister Saparkhan Omarov. At the May 26 session of the government, Minister Omarov revealed the plans to launch 12 boiler plants in Kazakhstan in the not so distant future. The plants are expected to have an output capacity of 174,000 tones. Thanks to the launch…
Services worth UAH 227 billion were sold in Ukraine in January-March, down by 1.7% YoY, according to the State Statistics Service. “In the first quarter of 2020, the volume of services provided by enterprises in the field of consumer services amounted to UAH 227 billion, or 98.3% of the volume provided in the relevant quarter…
State Employment Service said the number of unemployed in Ukraine grew by 64% YoY as of May 20, to 501,000 people. At the same time, the number of vacancies is 51,000. This is almost 55% fewer than last year, the report said. The average wage for existing vacancies is UAH 7,000 ($262). Today there is…
Net profit of 15 commercial banks of Georgia amounted to 80.29 million lari ($25.1 million) in April, up by 16.10 million lari ($5.04 million) YoY, the National Bank of Georgia (NBG) reported. Revenues received by commercial banks from fines / penalties amounted to 308,000 lari ($96,515); the net profit / loss from conversion operations, i.e.…
In April actual unemployment rate comprised 9.2%, up by 1.3% MoM. Unemployment rate registered by the State Employment Agency (NVA) accounted for 8% and, compared to March, it had risen by 1.2%. Unemployment rate increase may be observed also when comparing the data to the April of the previous year – of 2.7% in actual…
Due to the coronavirus pandemic and quarantine restrictions, remittances from Ukrainian migrant workers are expected to amount to $10 billion in 2020, which is $2 billion less than last year, according to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). “Labor migration is a difficult topic. About 3 million Ukrainians work abroad. Some of them are seasonal…
In 2019, local budgets received UAH 4.9 billion in revenues from real estate taxes, up by UAH 1.2 billion YoY, according to the Finance Ministry. “Local budgets received UAH 4.9 billion from the payment of real estate taxes in 2019 and UAH 3.7 billion in 2018,” the statement reads. Failure to pay taxes on real…